Rafael martinez



(No Model.)

R. MARTINEZ.

WINDOW.

Patented Sept. 8. 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT., GEEICE.

RAFAEL MARTINEZ, oE NEW YORK, NQ r.

WINDOW.

SPECIFICATION lforming part of Letters Patent No. 325,753, dated September 8, 1885.

Application tiled June 29, 1885. (No model.) V

To all whom t may concern,

Be it known `that I, RAFAEL MARTINEZ, a citizen of Spain, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Windows, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in Io windows in which both the upper and lower sashes are counterbalanced by weights and are arranged to slide up and down in their frame; and the objects of my improvements are to provide means for hnging one side of i5 the sashes to the frame and swinging them inwardly to facilitate the cleaning or washing of the panes thereof. I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in Ythe accompanying drawing, in which a Windowzo frame is represented having its lower sash elevated to the top of the frame and its top sash lowered and partly swung inwardly tol show its side supports and the position the hinged parts occupy before the sash can be turned inwardly.

in the drawing, G represents a windowframe provided with vertical grooves G for the sashes to run into, these grooves being between facing-strips B and the parting-strip 3C E. rlhese strips are permanently secured to the frame upon one side of the window-opening and Vextend the whole length thereof, and tov them are secured the eyes or sockets F of the sash-hinges, while projecting inwardly from the sashes are the pendent hinge hooks 'or pintles E, of suitable size to easily enter these sockets and form hinges with them. The sockets to receive the pintles of the lower sash, C, are projecting from the inner facing-strips, B', while the sockets to rev ceive the pintles of the upper sash,D', are projecting from the parting-strip E. The pintles of each sash are not quite perpendicularly one above the other; the lower pintle is farther from the edge of the sash or from the side strips of the frame, so that it will pass the upper hinge-socket and enter the lower one only; and these sockets are correspondingly projecting from the side strips of the 5o frame. Upon one side of the frame the side strips are cut in two labout the middle of their length, and the inner facing-strips, B, are retained connected to the frame by means of hinges b, to permit one edge of the lower sash, C, to escape from its groove toward the interior of the room. The sill-strip A is preferably hinged also to the sill of the frame, so that to swing the sash D the inner sash, C, need not be pushed up quite so high,. but yet on the under side of its top the frame Gis 6o recessed about one inch and ahalf deeper than usual to receive the upper edge of the sash C and allow the `sash D to turn on its hinges without coming in contact with the bottom rail of the sash C. The lower end of the parting-strips E carries a screw-eye or button e,to secure it to the frame at that end, while the upper end is beveled to engage under the lower edge of the upper partingstrip. After the sash D has been turned inward as much as the sash weight and cord 'g will allow, the looped end of said cord is drawn out of its socket d in the side of the sash and temporarily fastened to the pin g', projecting from the face ot' the window-frame. 75

`The sash, thus freed from alhimpediments on one side, can be turned upon its hinges and its panes cleaned ou both sides from within the room, and the danger to the operator thus removed. After one sash has been 8o cleaned the looped end of the cord g is replaced in its socket d and the sash replaced in its frame. Asimilar operation is practiced upon the second sash, after which the partition-strip E is replaced and secured to the window frame, the facing strip B swung back to its normal position,as well as the sillstrip A.

Having now fullydescribed my invention, I claim- 9o fl. A window-frame having hinge sockets F on one side, permanently projecting from said frame, vertically-sliding sashes provided with sash-cords, and hinge-pintles projecting from the sashes to engage with said hingesockets, substantiallyV as and for the purpose described. A

2. The combination of a window-frame, its hinged strips B, and hinge-sockets F, secured to the vertical strips of said frame, withverroo tically-sliding sasheS and hinge-pintles propintles projecting therefrom, substantially as jecting therefrom, Substantiallyas and for the and for the purpose described.

purpose described. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 3. The combination of a. WindoW-frame,.its presence of two Witnesses.

5 vertical hinged strip B, hinged Sill-strip A, RAFAEL MARTINEZ.

and hinge-sockets F, secured to the vertical Vitnesses:

strips of said frame, with vertically-sliding E. E. MASSON,

sushes capable o'pnssingeach othelgztnd hingel W. B. MASSON. 

